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I swear man.. if Isaac Quanor is not training with the main group and they don't get him ready for round 1 I will go down to Whittlesea and build more units and deal with idiots in their fake kmart surf tees at there one and only coffee shop staring at me like Tom Cruise has arrived in town or some shit like that.. that's it for me man.. I've had it up to my eyeballs with this shit man.

Neither the post to which this is a reply, nor this one are just. We lost that final by a few points. We were there or thereabouts until the very end, playing with a severely diminished back line, and in the face of some very shrewd tactics that nullified Sidebottom and Grundy.
The only planning lack was that absence of a method that worked to get around the two very effective tags. The Sidebottom forward move was anticipated and dealt with and there was nothing else. Grundy was left to cope.
The fact that we were so close when our key playmakers were taken out of the game says that pretty much everything else was operating well. We were a bit of luck, a couple of bad decisions and some poor umpiring from a win. We probably only needed one of these reversed and we won.
I can't see too much to criticize in the performance.

Brownlow Medallist

Neither the post to which this is a reply, nor this one are just. We lost that final by a few points. We were there or thereabouts until the very end, playing with a severely diminished back line, and in the face of some very shrewd tactics that nullified Sidebottom and Grundy.
The only planning lack was that absence of a method that worked to get around the two very effective tags. The Sidebottom forward move was anticipated and dealt with and there was nothing else. Grundy was left to cope.
The fact that we were so close when our key playmakers were taken out of the game says that pretty much everything else was operating well. We were a bit of luck, a couple of bad decisions and some poor umpiring from a win. We probably only needed one of these reversed and we won.
I can't see too much to criticize in the performance.

Rioli gets pinged for blocking Maynard and we win. Simple as that. I hate the feeling of having a flag stolen from us by umpires, and I know other stuff happened, but if that was judged correctly.......

Norm Smith Medallist

Rioli gets pinged for blocking Maynard and we win. Simple as that. I hate the feeling of having a flag stolen from us by umpires, and I know other stuff happened, but if that was judged correctly.......

Is there a proper replay of the free kick against Grundy from the ruck contest in the middle of the ground? Given the way those are an absolute raffle I have my doubts about the call without even having seen a replay.

We're two goals up all the momentum at the start of the fourth. They get the free in the middle. Kick a goals straight away and the margin is straight back to 6 points. Who knows what would have happened if we had won that centre clearance and taken the ball forward and locked it in there.

There is a lot more to football than premierships but god it hurts when you lose a grand final.

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Is there a proper replay of the free kick against Grundy from the ruck contest in the middle of the ground? Given the way those are an absolute raffle I have my doubts about the call without even having seen a replay.

We're two goals up all the momentum at the start of the fourth. They get the free in the middle. Kick a goals straight away and the margin is straight back to 6 points. Who knows what would have happened if we had won that centre clearance and taken the ball forward and locked it in there.

There is a lot more to football than premierships but god it hurts when you lose a grand final.

Without caring watch to a replay it wasn't the only occasion where the eagles got a centre ruck free and subsequent goal when had momentum. As you say they're a raffle, however we didn't get one in centre all day. We also had more than enough chances to continue that momentum ourselves, but didn't take them. At various times live it felt like we only needed one more goal to seal/run away with the trophy, but we could never get it.

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Rioli gets pinged for blocking Maynard and we win. Simple as that. I hate the feeling of having a flag stolen from us by umpires, and I know other stuff happened, but if that was judged correctly.......

We won games on Anzac Day, Queens Birthday and two finals. We weren’t disgraced by WCE in either losing final. As far as I’m concerned we succeeded on 4 of the 6 biggest stages we found ourselves in. Don’t think there’s an inability to deal with pressure at all.

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We won games on Anzac Day, Queens Birthday and two finals. We weren’t disgraced by WCE in either losing final. As far as I’m concerned we succeeded on 4 of the 6 biggest stages we found ourselves in. Don’t think there’s an inability to deal with pressure at all.

I was away from BF for a bit so didnt get a chance to reply but i respectfully disagree.

Anzac day/queens bday etc are huge games in terms of crowd numbers yes, but the ramifications are no where near as big. You lose yes it sucks and frustrating but the granny is literally the last game of the year, if you lose there is no redemption the week after. The pressure if huge.

I was at the game and in the last quarter i cant even count how many times we had the ball in defence and just bombed it out straight to Barrass/McGovern/Hurn etc. Where as normally we would be composed, run in numbers. I dunno i hate banging on about it because it still hurts but yeah, just my opinion.

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Rioli gets pinged for blocking Maynard and we win. Simple as that. I hate the feeling of having a flag stolen from us by umpires, and I know other stuff happened, but if that was judged correctly.......

In my opinion for 3 qtrs we were outplayed. And in the end we did let it slip, but by no means does it mean it was an undeserving victory for west coast. In my opinion if we won, we would of stolen it. Yes we got a 5 goal lead and some decisions went against us but a lot went for us and ultimately not capitalizing on our opportunities cost us.

Norm Smith Medallist

I was away from BF for a bit so didnt get a chance to reply but i respectfully disagree.

Anzac day/queens bday etc are huge games in terms of crowd numbers yes, but the ramifications are no where near as big. You lose yes it sucks and frustrating but the granny is literally the last game of the year, if you lose there is no redemption the week after. The pressure if huge.

I was at the game and in the last quarter i cant even count how many times we had the ball in defence and just bombed it out straight to Barrass/McGovern/Hurn etc. Where as normally we would be composed, run in numbers. I dunno i hate banging on about it because it still hurts but yeah, just my opinion.

I’m not saying we didn’t execute the game plan as well as we could’ve, I’m more generally speaking in reference to your quote “the inability to perform on a big stage” isn’t necessarily true as I pointed out previously.

The inability was to adapt to West Coast’s structure and create scoring opportunities.